Abstract

LIZARDO, Maria et al. Metabolic syndrome in individuals of the sector "El Valle", municipality Linares Alcántara of the State Aragua: Period 2007. Comunidad y Salud [online]. 2009, vol.7, n.2, pp.37-44. ISSN 1690-3293.

The cardiovascular illnesses (CVI), they constitute one of the main problem of public health in Venezuela, occupying the second place like cause of death. The arterial hypertension, the high consumption of fatty, the sedentarismo and the obesity, they are important factors of risk in the development of heart and coronary pathologies. At the present time, they have grouped a series of factors of risk in a well-known pathological square as Metabolic Syndrome (SM) whose transcendency resides in that those patients that suffer it present a high risk of suffering these illnesses and diabetes mellitus. The resistance to the insulin is presented like base main fisiopatológic of this syndrome, what bears to the organism to unchain hiperglicemy, hipertrigliceridemy and decrease of the concentration of HDLc, granting the graveness of the SM and for the development of ECV. For such a reason you effect the investigation in order to determining the frequency of this syndrome in the population of the Valley, municipality Linares Alcantara, for that that their it selected a random sample of 99 individuals of both sexes. For the diagnosis of the syndrome the approaches of the National Colesterol Education-Adult Treatment Panel (NCEP-ATPIII were used. The prevalence of the SM was of the studied individuals' 22%, where the visceral obesity and the dislipidemy were the approaches diagnostic more significants, finding significant relationship p <0.005 with the cardiovascular risk. You concluded the cardiovascular risk in patient with SM it is increased, as the number of diagnostic approaches settled down by the (NCEPATP III) increases.

Keywords : Metabolic syndrome; Cardiovascular Illness; dislipidemy; diabetes.

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